I'm actually surprised I was the first, at least on LJ, to make the connections—but at least we're brain twins.
I've discussed Kara as a classical/Campellian hero with a few people, but never took the time to spell out all the steps.
but most of the meta I read on it was the opposite of the conclusion I drew here,
Same. It reminded me a lot of her scenes with Lee and Adama in Maelstrom actually; their support meant everything to her, but they were on entirely different pages as to what was going on with her. What struck me as the most important thing about the scene wasn't that Lee affirmed she was the same, but that she then put her picture back on the wall, and the first thing she said in the next scene was "the old me is dead, I just had to accept it."
ETAL Oh, I meant to say: I agree about Leoben-Leoben, but I consider the Leoben in Maelstrom an entirely different being who simply assumed that form because of Kara's association (and need to overcome her revulsion at him and association of that with her destiny?) I think he was the same sort of thing as head!Baltar and head!Leoben, and it's him that I consider the Goddess (love all the gender reversals), not the Cylon Leoben who held her on New Caprica.
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Date: 2010-02-05 05:19 am (UTC)I've discussed Kara as a classical/Campellian hero with a few people, but never took the time to spell out all the steps.
but most of the meta I read on it was the opposite of the conclusion I drew here,
Same. It reminded me a lot of her scenes with Lee and Adama in Maelstrom actually; their support meant everything to her, but they were on entirely different pages as to what was going on with her. What struck me as the most important thing about the scene wasn't that Lee affirmed she was the same, but that she then put her picture back on the wall, and the first thing she said in the next scene was "the old me is dead, I just had to accept it."
ETAL Oh, I meant to say: I agree about Leoben-Leoben, but I consider the Leoben in Maelstrom an entirely different being who simply assumed that form because of Kara's association (and need to overcome her revulsion at him and association of that with her destiny?) I think he was the same sort of thing as head!Baltar and head!Leoben, and it's him that I consider the Goddess (love all the gender reversals), not the Cylon Leoben who held her on New Caprica.